Zorin OS 16 is what a Linux desktop distribution should be

Re:Zorin OS 16 is what a Linux desktop distribution should be by prirai on Saturday September 04, 2021 @06:30PM (#28419956)

Your question should be reversed. Nvidia itself doesn't care about open sourcing their driver so that it could be integrated as a kernel module. They provide a closed source blob which isn't even updated quite often. - Lookup for what Linus Torvalds said about Nvidia. For the dependency part, idk what problem you're facing. As long as you install using your package manager, you don't have to care about dependencies most of the time. However, if you build it from source there might be some errors here and there which you can easy solve. The best part is that after solving the issue you can also contribute to their project by informing them of a required dependency.

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Re:Zorin OS 16 is what a Linux desktop distribution should be by amelius on Saturday September 04, 2021 @06:39PM (#28420029)

The main problem is that some projects require versions of other projects that are of the form "later than X but no later than Y". These projects can conflict with the requirements of other projects.

Regarding NVidia, yes I know about the gesture which Torvalds (rightfully) made to them. The problem is that I (and lots of people) are dependent on NVidia, so we are dependent on OSes which are supported by them.

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Re:Zorin OS 16 is what a Linux desktop distribution should be by southerntofu on Sunday September 05, 2021 @07:30AM (#28423449)

> These projects can conflict with the requirements of other projects.

There's established ways to install those. Some are language-specific (python's virtualenvs) while others are system-wide (guix/nix/flatpak/snap/appimage/0install). If you have a more precise question about how to setup/package a specific project, feel free to ask.

> The problem is that I (and lots of people) are dependent on NVidia, so we are dependent on OSes which are supported by them.

I'm sorry for you, but we can't really blame that situation on the free-software ecosystem. If our governments and police were more concerned with multinationals (Nvidia in this example) exploiting people than with poor people stealing food or squatting abandoned houses, maybe there could be a justice on this planet.

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